skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
many people. not all people. Personally, I think that the N900 feels a lot more like linux than android (and personally, I don't have the time (and arguably don't have the skill) to port desktop linux to your smartphone hardware.)

the thing about the n900 is that it doesn't just run desktop linux; It has an interface that runs reasonably on a smartphone. But, you don't have to rewrite all your programs in a horrid java knock off. porting from linux to your n900 is not a particularly difficult thing, compared to porting to java.
am i wrong in thinking that a missing index can change an O(logn) query to an O(n), while an additional index is going to add a constant cost to writes?

because if that's correct then it makes sense to err on the side of too many indices.

of course, it is better to be perfect. but if you have an error, which side would you prefer to be on?

and you don't need "significant" volumes to hurt with a full table scan (ie it will hurt most of you).

[what surprised me was the 99% cache. that is very dependent on your application, but i guess is common for web apps?]
I read that article but can't remember a thing from it. Weird.

God says...
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It's my India-nigger doctor.

I speed read and nothing but "PITA" registered. Microsoft is bland. It drives me insane! That whole article droned and said nothing. My India-nigger doctor writes like that.

Turns-out I stopped too soon--didn't scroll. The rest is bland, too. I saw the word "German" and "Raju". Yeah, India-nigger at work.

God says...
stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the
sea and the waves roaring; 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear,
and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for
the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with
power and great glory.

21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and
lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the
trees; 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own
selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

21:31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye
that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.

----

That was a dud. Don't be stupid! I've learned to call a spade a spade.

I feel bad. Why am I so vicious? Because I encounter an evil force trying to brain wash me and keeping me in prison. I suffer no consequences good or bad -- just the brain washing.

----

I saw the story on Notch's luxurious office. That's not going to end well. Perhaps, it didn't start well. Luke 6 says highs and lows balance. I found that out for myself. I made a neuvo-riche clown out of myself in 2002 when I got rehired at Ticketmaster.

God says...
the LORD is his memorial.

12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait
on thy God continually.

12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he
loveth to oppress.

12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that
were sin.

12:9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet
make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
It's so we know how many to make. We won't charge anyone's card until they are ready to ship.
I love the web circa 2012
Well, that one is only for the ethernet shield. I'm guessing you probably need more code for communicating over wifi or bluetooth and supporting wpa/wpa2.
Ditto for tables where you need a significant part of the data, e.g. 25%. If all queries need that amount of data, an index is just a waste.

If the tables are only queried once in a blue moon but written to very often (e.g. events/history/logs) then indexes can be wasteful.
http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL MySQL vs PostgreSQL - an objective comparison
That profile shows pretty clearly that they've increased their monthly uniques by about 100k since February, when they'd been increasing by 100k _per month_ for the 5 months before that. I would not call that "promising".
> Most people aren't even aware the Government is doing this, or at best they think it's just a silly conspiracy theory they've heard from their friends, but don't really believe it.

Actually, when I've told people about this, they just shrugged it off. The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of people just don't care about these sorts of things, or think that it's OK for the government to do it.
Don't get too excited just yet- they might just be making dev hardware for now. Nokia's "all in" on WP means that they have a great hardware partner for the time being, I'm not sure they'd want to jeopardise that just yet.
Opinions aside, it's still true that native apps can do things that things generated by PHP fundamentally can not.

Examples include spawn true threads, truly use multiple cores with no "global interpreter locks" of any sort other than those explicitly coded in the native app, get at hardware accelerators on a platform, etc.
When Amazon came out with DNS-based load-balancing, we thought about switching, but it'd be a downgrade from what we've got already. We direct traffic to the server that's showing the lowest latency right now and switch to another server if the measured latency changes. Amazon's latency data will be much slower to adapt to network conditions, and with DNS caching, it wouldn't provide fail-over if the lowest-latency server happened to go down or become unreachable.

Amazon's scheme is pretty nifty though, and we'd definitely use it if we didn't already have a more dynamic solution already in place.
You mean like this one?

> PHP is the core web language because PHP devs (for the most part) are cheap, replaceable parts.
I see nothing of the sort, and I'm not logged into Live. When I select any of the 'See all products' from the Products hover menu I either get the product suite's landing page, or the Site Map [1]. Is this possibly a regional issue?

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/sitemap.aspx
HN is not a business. Y Combinator is. HN is useful to Y Combinator as long as the discussion is interesting and attracts the right people.

Quora is a business. They are not making any money. Like Twitter, they can only hope to make money if they grow big enough. If the only way to grow requires pissing off existing users (or developers, in Twitter's case), the choice is clear.
Really cool concept. I'd love to get a couple of these as gifts. Only problem is that I suck at selecting the right features, so facial recognition or Mechanical Turk usage would really help.

(Also, a ponytail hairstyle would be nice.)
If we're innocent, why do we need to be tracked? If they have no suspicion of guilt, then for what reason do they need data about us?

I want the protection of 'requiring a judge's approval' before police are allowed to track me. The risk of having my self or my information at the mercy of either corrupt, or easily hacked, law enforcement is too great.
One of the founders, just wanted to reply and say, yes, you are entirely right. We put up that endpoint for a separate purpose, didn't expect people to find it (underestimating people is clearly a bad strategy) and will be locking it down to require a password to create/find a apikey.

In general, the apikey doesn't actually provide very much security as is; by it's public by it's very nature as you have to put it client side and expose it to all your users. We've got HMAC and secret keys in the pipeline for next week :D
Do they have guarantee? If you aren't satisfied we will give you back your tweet all you pay is shipping and handling.
A lot of my most popular blog posts are ones that I've written to address questions that I had as a younger version of myself but that I've since answered with experience/introdpection. This is definitely a viable technique.
If it Is any criticism it's more targeted on people who come here but don't bother too educate themselves on topics which are posted and discussed. I'm not an engineer but I'm able to actively use HN.
Asking how someone would go about solving a problem is a good question to ask but simply can't replace making sure the candidate can write code. Imagine hiring script-kiddies instead of actual hackers.

As an aside, did anyone else see the irony in the word "competent" being misspelled?
>"If Adam D'Angelo has many Billions of dollars, I can't see them ever having a financial issue."

If they're not making money, they have a "financial issue" from day one.
Well... the really cheap ones are just timers/thermometers. The amount of control you have over it is related to how much you can program it. I used to have one that was very simple: I could set 2 times/temps for the week and 2 for the weekend. It was easy to program but didn't have much smarts. SO on days that I worked form home, it still let it get hotter/colder for my pre-programmed "away" time frame. So I was constantly tweaking it when I was not really away. My new house had some fancier ones that gave me more times/temps to program and I think I could adjust them per day (not just "week" and "weekend") but it was actually overly complicated to program. And some of the fancier ones still cost $150-175 at HD. So at $250, the Nest is not that much more expensive than some of the fancier ones at HD. But you get some much more "smarts" with it. And you get all the cool extra stuff like remote access, monthly usage reports, habit learning, etc.
Google's Motorola Mobility withdraws entire second ITC complaint against Apple
<rant>

The link intrigued me that PHP was coming to mobile but the only sentence in the entire thing that spoke to that was "But, he hinted to me, PHP and Zend will be providing client-side app-enabling tools." The rest of the article is just filler about the history of PHP.

I mean really, this is the definition click bate: a bunch of filler and one tiny smidgen of information.

</rant>

Personally, while I'm not a huge fan of PHP it is one of the most useful languages I've learned so I think that mobile PHP is pretty exciting.
Airtime does not solve a problem today. It is wayyy to ahead of its time. When we are all in automated cars and have more discretionary time. Services like airtime will be successful. Right now we're too busy to invest the time in a product that needs to boil the whole ocean to be successful. Chatroullette was a fad, where Airtime is trying to be a communications platform like facebook/twitter. Except that there was a reason for Facebook/Twitter, and there isn't one for airtime. There will be in the future though.
Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter. Especially since most people believe "Obscurity" to still be a valid security technique.
Announcing Calatrava: OSS cross-platform mobile framework to build great UIs
Tagging is friction on Ad campaigns. Remove that friction and marketers can run more/better campaigns, thus spending more money with Google.
Yeah, that's my point. I wanted to see their new oultook.com (I had seen screenshot, it was looking great), they fed me a bug. I wanted to see their new microsoft.com, they fed me a bug.

Trying again gives me this : http://i.imgur.com/th3sW.png , same with your link.

Actually I really don't want to troll about Microsoft, bugs, and how many times their product had to fail on me before I finally decided not to use their product again. I have not used their products for 10 years but heard both here and IRL great things about them. But sorry, "must've been a bug" is unfortunately not the best way to seduce me again or to welcome me back.
Welcome to startupland, where perfectly successful ideas fail because too much is expected of them.

Quora has taken on too much funding to do "OK". But if it hadn't, it could end up thriving as a successful business. IMO, too many startups go down the road of taking on a ton of funding and expanding very fast. It's very easy to decide that you have the next Google on your hands, but you probably don't. There's nothing wrong with that.
Sure, but the point of the 'Lighten Up' is that just because someone doesn't speak up doesn't mean that they don't feel disenfranchised. In fact, that is the frustrating point for Katie, because by speaking up, one risks being branded (or, at least, told to 'lighten up')

Hypotheticals aside, the biggest problem with your argument is that you seem to be saying that if the OP was a woman, then she'd have more of a point...I hope to think that isn't the case...if the OP's point is flawed then it is wrong if it comes from a woman.

(in the abortion debate, the "men should mind their own business" sentiment is also flawed, especially since there are a good number of women who oppose abortion)
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"Sorry, you're altering to your entire point from start to finish with this 'minor' correction?"

Granted, I can see your point, definitely.

The next sentence in my original post, though, referred directly to my intent: complaints that the ad deceived as to how "easy (and quick) it was to do something on the iPhone" versus reality.
To be honest, yes. It looks weird and rolls off the tongue even weirder. (I naturally want to say 'coh-dose' and feel like I have to force that extra D in there)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP-GTK
, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxPHP
, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP-Qt
, http://winbinder.org/
The 99% cache recommendation is absolutely for web applications. Most web applications will want queries to return in less than 10 ms and are only retrieving a small amount of data. With data warehousing and reporting applications this definitely changes.
I think it has a lot of potential. I initally liked the idea a lot. It needs polish, but that goes without saying for an alpha version.

I worry a little bit about how actually useful it is. Because I choose a few options and then it, say, comes down to a couple of laptops that are close to each other in specs. A person is still left wondering which. That's not too different than two similarly speced machines next to each other on the shelf.
Are you kidding me? The only similarity to an iPhone is the rectangular shape.
HN by itself is not a money-making product. Quora is.

Quora is not a money-making product, it wants to be one. In their present incarnations, if they just inserted ads (just for argument sake), it is not clear that Quora would make more money than HN.

You can be a profitable company by just focusing on user engagement, and not on user growth. Quora's problem is that they raised too much money and now have to give their investors a return on their investment.
i think this is quite smart. it's not just the hype, but similar to app.net, it's guaranteeing there is a minimum threshold of demand.

what do you mean by 'ballsy to sidestep kickstarter.' has kickstarter become some kind of sole-arbiter of product development? FWIW, if this style of e-commerce continues, someone should develop the API for this/app.net type of sales instead of each building the billing system from scratch.
Is there any information on when an SDK/documentation/emulator will be available? I've been curious about the project, and what they're doing beyond the Mer core.
We use Lockitron on the Firebase office door. I highly recommend it. Giving access to new employees is a couple of clicks, rather than making & tracking a new physical key.
More details needed. (Ex Qualcomm engineer here, who finds the argument you were told tenuous. CDMA and GSM use digital vocoders, some adjust the bitrate for the characteristics of what is being encoded, but I'm just curious about the details of the argument.)
I don't see a reason why to be honest. The lumia seems great.
Ahhh crap. I have been building this exact thing in my garage as we speak.

Too slow! Well played, Lockitron.
Labels, Priority Inbox are rally what would keep me in the web interface. Sparrow showed the labels next to the message so I could easy associate.
The comment you're replying to didn't assert that most PHP developers are lazy and stupid, but rather asserted that most PHP programmers are using PHP because it's the first "web" language they were introduced to and they haven't really learned anything else.

And that's okay. But I'd strongly assert that "PHP is quick, easy and gets the job done" does not support the assertion "PHP is a well-designed language." From what I've seen, Laravel is as high-quality an MVC framework as anything you could find in another language. But if it's a truism that terrific coders can produce terrific code in any programming language -- and I think it is -- then "there is terrific code in PHP" is not a defense of PHP's language design.
I think what nicpottier writes above is the insight to take away from JANA, basically communications budget is a fungible commodity for a lot of people. They really want their communication, there is a way to 'barter' communication credits for work. This works really well because there are more than enough ways to 'spend' mobile credits. Given a currency 'mobile minutes' an exchange rate to the local currency, and a market maker (the telcos) to enable both the currency exchange and the ability to transact and its a pretty cool opportunity.
I've done GWT for about 2.5 years from version 1.x to 2.x. I'm not sure I prefer one or the other.

GWT development is a bit painful to setup and to work day-to-day.

It's nice to have the similar Java structure and to be able to write unit-tests to test the app via MVP patterns but I'm still not sure it's a big win for me going forward. Especially when the founding members have left the team.
I thought is was similar to the "if you work for someone that started the company with his own money, you have an insane boss" -

The cynical angle: if you can get someone else to put up the cash, it seems a little foolish to put up your own, when the venture will probably fail anyhow, no? why not get paid either way?

Next, if all of your net worth is tied up in this one venture, well, that's going to effect your actions. Depending on your preferred outcome, for better or worse. I mean, all of my net worth is tied up in prgmr.com, and I think I've been slightly too conservative about accepting investors/partners. (I've turned down people that would have contributed serious technical ability as well as a little money, which may have been a mistake.)

And, of course, you have the emotional stress of losing your own money. (which varies by person. I've been poor before, I'll probably be poor again. It's not as scary to me as it probably is to some people. Personally, I find the idea of losing other people's money more stressful, so maybe there is just something wrong with me.)

The biggest downside to not taking money might be that there is nobody to make me slaughter my sacred cows. If I think X industry practice is wrong, well, there is nobody else to stop me from destroying the company by going against industry practice. (of course, the other side of that is that if you take money, it's very hard to do anything nonstandard, even when it would be good for the company. If you are doing it right, you know more about this sort of thing than your investors do.)
I'm a VC, and when I read the line "buying sole control" I assumed that the Series A investment from Benchmark is intact, and their shares still vote on any protective provisions granted to the preferred stock, but Adam simply bought enough stock in the Series B (in combination with his originally granted founders shares) to do two things:

1) represent a majority of all outstanding stock (both common and preferred).
2) represent a majority of all preferred stock.

If the preferred stock votes on all protective provisions in an all-for-one manner, then Adam would control the preferred voting, assuming #2 is true above. All-for-one means that all classes of preferred stock vote together as one group, and each share, regardless of class, gives you one vote. If the governance issues that affect the preferred stock are not setup as "all-for-one" voting, then the other likely situation would be independent class voting, in which case Benchmark and Adam would each get their own veto (Benchmark would control the voting of the Srs A and Adam would control the voting of the Srs B, and so they could each vote the other party down). If Adam really has sole control, then preferred voting would need to happen in an "all-for-one" manner.

My explanation is just an assumption based on that one flip line, but that's how it reads to me.
I LOVE QUORA.

They have produced a system which is creating some of the best authored information online. Each time I get their weekly email, I lose about half of my day because each item in it is so amazing that I have to read it.

Watch Charlie Cheever's interview with TechCrunch recently. I think it's pretty telling that he was done with the company, it might have been the best call for him to leave.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/27/quora-we-have-an-explicit-n...
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If you are the only investor in your thing, then is a warning sign to everyone else.

I think any successful bootstrapped company might challenge that assumption.

It might be a warning sign to people who think you can't succeed without outside investment, who of course are mostly either outside investors themselves or other business people involved with funding somehow.

It might be a warning sign to people who think they're going to make easy money by being able to invest in a successful company, who are all outside investors.

I'm not sure why anyone else would care, and certainly I don't see why either the founders or their customers should.
As a user, how do I know that the summary I'm reading is an accurate reflection of the article? Do you have any plans to validate the tl;dr entries? Have you thought about a rating system to allow users to rate the tl;dr entries?
I must be in the minority, i hate emoticons, especially considering they are different on different platforms, Android, iOS, WP, FB, Msn..on & on...